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The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Diemer, Ulli
http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CxAnnual-Intro-All.htmPublisher: Connexions Information Sharing Services, Toronto, Canada Year First Published: {11661 The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections CONNEXIONS ANNUAL INTRODUCTIONS TO THE DIRECTORY & ITS SECTIONS Diemer, Ulli http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CxAnnual-Intro-All.htm Connexions Information Sharing Services Toronto Canada This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems. 1989 1994 CxDigest49-Annual1989.jpg ART Article We live in a world in crisis. Governments, corporations, and institutions assure us they have everything under control, and that better times are just around the corner, but all around us we see poverty, violence, injustice, environmental disasters, and wars. <br> <br>For more than a decade, they have imposed a new-right agenda on our societies, telling us we have no choice but to adapt to a `new world order' based on `free markets' and privatization. Instead of experiencing the promised benefits, however, most of us find ourselves worse off, economically, socially, and spiritually. <br> <br>Most of us are not living the lives we would choose to live, but the existing order insists there are no alternatives to itself, and most of us are sufficiently convinced or pre-occupied or discouraged to keep society from coming unglued. Many, many people wish there were alternatives, or think there ought to be, but are resigned to the conclusion that it is utopian to entertain any hopes for real change. The `system' is too big, too powerful, and we are too weak and too few in numbers. <br> <br>'What do we do now?' 'How do we live?' All too often, we mind our own problems and don't think about the rest. <br> <br>Yet despite the pervasive feeling that 'nothing can be done', people do join together to act in common when they feel threatened or wronged, or when they have a goal in sight which they desire passionately enough. Sometimes they organize quietly and gradually. At other times a mass movement explodes into being, seemingly out of nothing, despite the risks and the odds. <br> <br>- Ulli Diemer CX5417 1 false true false CX5417.htm [0xc00097f020 0xc000e551d0 0xc000e55b30 0xc000e6aed0 0xc000eaef00 0xc000f66960 0xc0001c0360 0xc000174090 0xc000222d20 0xc000223080 0xc0002c8a80 0xc00030d830 0xc0007742a0 0xc000332480 0xc0000d1350 0xc00054c8d0 0xc000a2e540 0xc0004eef60 0xc000817500 0xc000936ed0 0xc000290f00 0xc000fca990 0xc0015f5e90 0xc001fc7da0 0xc00249e2d0 0xc001264900 0xc00213f1d0] Cx} Year Published: 1994 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX5417 This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems. Abstract: We live in a world in crisis. Governments, corporations, and institutions assure us they have everything under control, and that better times are just around the corner, but all around us we see poverty, violence, injustice, environmental disasters, and wars. For more than a decade, they have imposed a new-right agenda on our societies, telling us we have no choice but to adapt to a `new world order' based on `free markets' and privatization. Instead of experiencing the promised benefits, however, most of us find ourselves worse off, economically, socially, and spiritually. Most of us are not living the lives we would choose to live, but the existing order insists there are no alternatives to itself, and most of us are sufficiently convinced or pre-occupied or discouraged to keep society from coming unglued. Many, many people wish there were alternatives, or think there ought to be, but are resigned to the conclusion that it is utopian to entertain any hopes for real change. The `system' is too big, too powerful, and we are too weak and too few in numbers. 'What do we do now?' 'How do we live?' All too often, we mind our own problems and don't think about the rest. Yet despite the pervasive feeling that 'nothing can be done', people do join together to act in common when they feel threatened or wronged, or when they have a goal in sight which they desire passionately enough. Sometimes they organize quietly and gradually. At other times a mass movement explodes into being, seemingly out of nothing, despite the risks and the odds. - Ulli Diemer Subject Headings
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